New reporting on DOJ complaints about Prez Biden’s final mass clemencies

Based on newly public emails, there are two new articles about Justice Department official in January of this year complaing about one set of out-going Prez Biden’s mass clemency actions:

From the New York Post, “Biden DOJ ripped White House over clemency grant to ‘non-violent offenders’: ‘Stop saying that because it is untrue’“

From the Washington Examiner, “Biden ignored DOJ warnings over legally flawed autopen pardons“

Here is the start of the lengthy NYPost piece:

Senior Justice Department officials were left befuddled by the sweeping pardons then-President Biden approved for thousands of convicts days before leaving office earlier this year — and rebuked the White House for falsely labeling the clemency recipients “nonviolent” offenders, according to emails reviewed by The Post.

Associate Deputy Attorney General Brad Weinsheimer struggled to make sense of the commutations granted nearly to 2,500 federal convicts Jan. 17 and requested “a list as to each inmate listing the offenses that are covered by the commutation.”

The emails were obtained by the government watchdog the Oversight Project and first reviewed by The Post.

“I think the language ‘offenses described to the Department of Justice’ in the warrant is highly problematic and in order to resolve its meaning appropriately, and consistent with the President’s intent, we will need a statement or direction from the President as to how to interpret the language,” Weinsheimer wrote in a Jan. 18 email to members of the White House Counsel’s Office and the DOJ Pardon Attorney’s Office.”